18 Feb
2004
18 Feb
'04
10:15 a.m.
If you are feeling brave enough you can:
Configure sendmail to handle your mail properly,
Configure Spam Assassin, and MimeDefang to hook into your email, strip
"bad" attachments, and scan attachments with various Linux virus
scanners.
The sendmail configuration is the worst part. I've still not quite got
it working the way I want it to.
Anyways, the one command line virus scanner I played with was "McAfee
VirusScan Command Line Scanner for Linux"...
Unfortunately, I've seen pricing for McAfee's virus scanner, but should
you want to dink with it, there is a eval available here:
http://www.nai.com/us/downloads/evals/#McAfee
The wife uses Windoze on her Laptop, and I filter all her mail w/ the
above setup. (It mostly works but not completely. :-? )
David
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 17:10, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 15:27, John Boffemmyer IV
wrote:
I recently got my damned Linux box up and running
and fully plan on using
it as a web/email server. Is there a decent and as close to free as
possible (hey, I admit it, I'm poor) antivirus that supports scanning of
email on the server?
not that I know of... but if you can get rid of Windows on the desktop
then that pretty much solves the problem too :-)
I just ditch all the virus traffic on the client in the same way that I
do the spam. You could always set up procmail on the server to filter
messages with attachments based on size (or other rules) I suppose, but
maintaining it might be a chore, and it still doesn't solve the problem
if people are sending you binaries that are legitimate but *might* be
infected.
cheers
Jules